Alexandra Wimley

A Port Authority bus is lifted via crane out of the wreckage of the collapsed Fern Hallow Bridge, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park. The 50-year-old bridge collapsed nearly 100 feet into a ravine below on January 28 due to a “structural failure,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The bus and four passenger vehicles were on the bridge at the time of the collapse. Four people sustained serious injuries.

Brooke Decker, left, of Marshall, Pa., an infectious diseases and critical care physician, argues with Dana Gibson, right, of McCandless, Pa., about Gibson’s opposition to a mask mandate for students, while Everlee Craddock, of Baden, Pa., looks on, before the North Allegheny School District school board regarding the district’s mask policy, Wednesday, August 25, 2021, at at North Allegheny Senior High School in McCandless, Pa. Two days before this a federal judge reinstated a mask mandate after a group of parents filed an injunction to require masks. Previously, the school board voted to overturn the superintendent’s decision to require masks, making them optional for everyone.

Sarah Glick, of the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, helps her son Harrison, 3, swab his nose while getting tested for COVID-19 at the Curative testing van parked off Wightman Street in Squirrel Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. Glick said they were getting tested as a precaution before visiting her mother.

"I can't believe this is really happening," exclaimed Cynthia Cordier of Chicago as she stood in a crosswalk in downtown Chicago to view the total solar eclipse through protective glasses, Aug. 21, 2017, the first time a total solar eclipse was visible in the contiguous United States in 38 years.

Kids try on roller skates at the National Night Out event organized by Buy Back The Block, Tuesday, August 2, 2022, on Frankstown Avenue in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh. National Night Out is a nationwide community-building effort that aims to strengthen communities and their partnerships with police and public safety officials.

Abby Swank, 10, of Robinson, Pa., leaps off a diving board at the pool at Settlers Cabin Park, Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Robinson, as a heat wave drove temperatures into the 90s and the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for the Pittsburgh area through the weekend.

Ihssane Leckey, of Philadelphia, cries as she listens to a speaker during the Women's March on Washington in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2017.

Phil Zmenkowski, of McCandless, Pa., center, dances with high school students during the annual prom for senior citizens hosted by North Allegheny Senior High School students, Friday, May 10, 2019, in the school's cafeteria in McCandless, Pa.

Brian Hargett, of Chippewa, Pa., walks in Raccoon Creek State Park with his Burmese python named Baby, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Hanover.

Emmanuel Todd-Baraka, of Penn Hills, Pa., prepares for the grand entry marking the beginning of the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center's annual pow wow, a two-day event to showcase dancing, music, arts and foods from American Indian tribal members from across the region, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, in Dorseyville, Pa.

Fathers lift up their sons to dance and sing during a procession to celebrate the completion of a new Torah dedicated to Joyce Fienberg, one of the 11 victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, and her husband Dr. Stephen Fienberg, as the crowd makes its way down Murray Avenue from Beacon Street to Shaare Torah Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Sunday, July 30, 2023.

Veronica Siaba, of Queens, N.Y., sobs as she's comforted by Shelly Ferritto, of Erie, Pa., a nurse aide whose job was eliminated with the attendant care program, as Ms. Siaba prepares to leave with her family after moving out of her dorm room, Friday, May 3, 2019, in Rose Hall at Edinboro University in Edinboro, Pa. The decades-old attendant care program provided students with physical disabilities 24/7 access to care, and the university's decision to cut the program forced many of the students that relied on it to leave the university prematurely.

Marilyn McFarlin, second from right in the front, of Blairsville, Pa., embraces her son Vinnie, 9, as attendees pray during a vigil for Nalani Johnson, a toddler who was found dead still buckled in her car seat after being missing for nearly three days, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, at the amphitheater in Blairsville Veterans Memorial Park in Blairsville, Pa.

The Silverman children cool off by playing with water balloons in their front yard, as their mother Chani Silverman looks on, Monday, June 08, 2020, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Lillyn Walsh and Katie Rickman, both Pittsburgh residents, sit outside at Glen’s Frozen Custard in Springdale, Pa., where the Cheswick Generating Station can be seen in the background, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. The power plant was initially scheduled to retire in mid-September but will now stay online until April 1, according to its owner the Texas-based GenOn Holdings.

Jacob Grant removes a mattress damaged by floodwater and sewage from a flooded basement on Rockland Road in Libertyville, Ill., July 13, 2017, after a flash flood caused by a series of storms carrying heavy rainfall through the greater Chicago region.

From left sitting, Angela Lin, 6, Vickie Xu, 6, and Selina Xu, 4, sit at the feet of their parents, from left standing, Hang Lin, Jinquan Xu, and Xuejiao Sun, all of the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, as they listen to a speaker during a candlelight vigil, Sunday, March 21, 2021, outside of the City-County Building, Downtown, in honor of the victims of the shootings in Atlanta where eight people, six of them Asian women, were killed on March 16.

John Fetterman, right, then Lt. Gov.-elect of Pennsylvania and the mayor of Braddock, Pa., talks with Charles Prodanovich, of Trafford, Pa., who recognized Fetterman while he was on a walk with his family, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, on the Westmoreland Heritage Trail in Trafford, Pa. Fetterman, a Democrat, gave Prodanovich, who said he is a Republican who voted for President Donald Trump, his personal cell phone number to, “continue the conversation,” Fetterman said.

A protester is arrested during a demonstration protesting alleged mistreatment of transgender inmates in the Allegheny County Jail, Oct. 25, 2018, in the Uptown neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Eleven protesters were arrested after they blocked traffic in front of the jail.

Faris Kamal, 10, gets comforted by his mother Maliah Kamal, of Franklin Park, Pa., during an interfaith memorial service, Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at Heinz Memorial Chapel in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, for the victims of the Sri Lanka bombings, which killed hundreds of people on Easter Sunday. Ms. Kamal said she was moved to attend the service because her best friend from high school is a Sri Lankan Catholic who regularly attended one of the churches that was bombed.

Romodore Abdullah, a longtime resident of Crestas Terrace, a small, tight-knit neighborhood in North Versailles, Pa., stands for a portrait in a room of the old school house that she and a group of other volunteers, most of whom are current or former residents of the neighborhood, are working to repair and turn into a community center, Monday, March 29, 2021.

William Thiele walks through the milk barn on his family's dairy farm, Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in Cabot, Pa. Due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Thieles’ milk processor has forced them to cut back production by 15%, or about 225 gallons a month, all of which they are forced to dump or mix into the cow feed.

Allan Valencia, of Chicago, jumps into Lake Michigan near North Avenue Beach in Chicago on July 4, 2017.

Athletes complete in the 300-meter hurdles at the WPIAL Class 3A individual championships, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pa.